Record Number: 19507
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the first Book of the Discovery he made there in those admirable Verses but he soon found that he had no peculiar Discernment.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 30 Jun 1815
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Trowbridge
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:24 Dec 1754
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:clergyman and poet
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Lord of the Isles, The
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
gift from Scott
Source Information:
Record ID:19507
Source:George Crabbe
Editor:Thomas Faulkner
Title:Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1985
Vol:n/a
Page:180
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe, (Oxford, 1985), p. 180, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19507, accessed: 06 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter to Walter Scott